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Numenius americanus (Long-billed Curlew)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) is a large North American shorebird of the family Scolopacidae. This species was also called "sicklebird" and the "candlestick bird". The species is native to central and western North America. In the winter, the species migrates southwards, as well as towards the coastline.
View Wikipedia Record: Numenius americanus

Infraspecies

Numenius americanus americanus (Long-billed curlew)
Numenius americanus parvus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
5
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
27
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 11.5921
EDGE Score: 2.53307
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.301 lbs (590 g)
Birth Weight [3]  73 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.415 lbs (642 g)
Male Weight [1]  1.186 lbs (538 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  19.3 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Shortgrass prairie, Agricultural
Wintering Geography [2]  Southern U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [2]  Beaches and estuaries, Saline lakes, Agricultural
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore
Diet - Fruit [4]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  90 %
Forages - Ground [4]  80 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Clutch Size [6]  4
Clutches / Year [5]  1
Fledging [1]  43 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [2]  140,000
Incubation [5]  29 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  10 years
Migration [7]  Intracontinental
Wing Span [5]  11 inches (.282 m)
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [1]  3 years 6 months

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Imperial Valley USA A1, A4i
Nicoya Gulf mangroves and coastal areas Costa Rica A1, A4i, A4iii
Tárcoles, Carara and La Cangreja Costa Rica A1, A2

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
California Floristic Province Mexico, United States No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Prey / Diet

Clevelandia ios (Arrow goby)[8]
Cryptomya californica (california softshell clam)[9]
Gemma gemma (amethyst gemclam)[9]
Leptuca crenulata (Mexican fiddler)[8]
Pachygrapsus crassipes (striped shore crab)[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5PECIES ASSESSMENT FOR LONG-BILLED CURLEW (NUMENIUS AMERICANUS) IN WYOMING, DARBY N. DARK-SMILEY AND DOUGLAS A. KEINATH, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, January 2004
♦ 6Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 7Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 8Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
♦ 9FEEDING BEHAVIOR AND DIET OF THE LONG-BILLED CURLEW AND WILLET, LYNNE E. STENZEL, HARRIET R. HUBER, AND GARY W. PAGE, THE WILSON BULLETIN - Vol. 88, No. 2, June 1976
♦ 10Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 11SPECIES ASSESSMENT FOR LONG-BILLED CURLEW (NUMENIUS AMERICANUS) IN WYOMING, DARBY N. DARK-SMILEY and DOUGLAS A. KEINATH, Wyoming Natural Diversity Database 2000
♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0